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So it would have been made sometime prior to 1975 as that is when Dupont ceased making black powder.Got 1,200 caps and a few cans of powder at a probate auction a while back, was wondering if anyone would know how old this can of Dupont FFFG is. Can was full and powder appears ok.
Got 1,200 caps and a few cans of powder at a probate auction a while back, was wondering if anyone would know how old this can of Dupont FFFG is. Can was full and powder appears ok.
The powder will be as good as new.would
That powder will be fine. DuPont eventually stopped making that black powder and GOEX was born. I believe that was the same powder that I bought in 1968 for my Pedersoli Kentucky cap & ball Pistol. I stored some in a jar at home when I went to college and I still had that jar in ~2004 or 2003 when I bought my first Flintlock longrifle. I had moved to Vermont and already had an unmentionable BP rifle because my wife had a deer jump on the hood of our Dodge Raider 4x4 and she said, "you should buy on of those "not to be named" BP muzzleloaders and start hunting again. There are too darn many deer here and they are BIG". Northern white tails do get big. I was using Pyrodex in that cap and ball muzzle loader but when I got my Flintlock long rifle, I could not get it to even flash in the pan. I was very bummed figuring there was something wrong with my new Traditions Pennsylvania longrifle.Got 1,200 caps and a few cans of powder at a probate auction a while back, was wondering if anyone would know how old this can of Dupont FFFG is. Can was full and powder appears ok.
Dupont was still making Black Powder in 1972 in the Belin Works in Moosic, PA. That plant was built in 1908 and came into production in 1912. That brought their BP factories to three - the other two were in Wapwallopen, PA and Wilmington, Delaware. After WWII the Belin plant was able to supply all the BP the market needed and DuPont closed the other two factories. By the 1960's that Belin plant was the ONLY plant in the US producing black powder. In 1972, they sold that plant to Gearhart-Owens and no longer made BP themselves. Thus Gearhart-Owens Explosives - GOEX - was formed.Dupont halted manufacture of black powder May 16th, 1945.
It was a common practice from the 1950's into the 1980's that members of BP clubs would buy a 25 lb. keg of black powder, and the members would re-use old powder cans when splitting up that keg. So the can is 80 years old or older. Is it Dupont powder? Maybe, maybe not.
I'd chronograph it up against GOEX and Swiss just for the sake of curiosity.
LD
That center can - DuPont, red and white can, was what I was buying in 1968 and later. That third can has to be a transition can before Gearhart-Owens came up with the brand name of GOEX for Gearhart-Owens Explosives. I'd guess the logo on that can is for Gearhart-Owend Industries.There were actually four cans - the FFFg in this picture was also full - the other two were a bit over half full - all of that plus 1,200 #11 caps for $80.
When I first moved to Virginia in ‘97 I asked the girl I was dating “where are all the adult deer?” We’ve been married 25 years and she still laughs about that.Northern white tails do get big.
That middle can is what I was buying in the mid to late 60's into the 70's. The can style on the right I was buying after 1972 (I think). The price ranged from around $2.25 to $3.50 per can in NJ if memory serves me correctly.There were actually four cans - the FFFg in this picture was also full - the other two were a bit over half full - all of that plus 1,200 #11 caps for $80.
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